Individual: Voices from the Holocaust Podcast

09/07/2020

09/07/2020

We've lost our Patreon for those who wish to contribute to help the podcast get created in a timely manner (while still maintaining a high standard!) https://www.patreon.com/IndividualPodcast

14/06/2020

Hang tight, we'll hopefully have some updates we can share soon!

25/01/2020

Our project has not been abandoned, but rather a team (yes a team!) are working to bring this podcast to life. Stay tuned.

05/11/2019

We have some exciting developments behind the scenes that have stalled production, but keep following us for more information!

16/10/2019

16/10/2019

Our first episode has been stalled for some pretty exciting reasons, so continue to watch this space.

11/10/2019

This is Karl Gorath. When he was 26, his jealous lover denounced him to the police as a gay man. The N**i regime had strengthened Germany’s existing law against homosexuality, Paragraph 175, to punish men suspected of so-called "unnatural indecency" with other men. After being denounced, Karl was tried and convicted under Paragraph 175 and sent to Neuengamme concentration camp, where he was forced to wear a pink triangle on his prisoner uniform.

His training as a nurse eventually got him transferred to another camp to work in the hospital there; however, when a guard ordered him to decrease the rations for patients who were Polish prisoners of war, Karl refused. He was sent to Auschwitz as punishment, where he remained until liberation in 1945.

After the war, he returned to Germany. His conviction under Paragraph 175 stayed on his record because West Germany continued to uphold the N**i version of the law. Karl was arrested under Paragraph 175 a second time in the 1950s. At his trial, the judge sentencing him to prison for homosexuality was the same judge who had sent him to a concentration camp for the same reason decades earlier. From 1945 until Paragraph 175 was amended in 1969, West Germany imprisoned about 100,000 men under this law. The German government did not fully repeal Paragraph 175 until 1994.

Karl made several attempts to claim reparations after the war, as many survivors of N**i persecution did. He was denied. According to officials, he was not eligible because his camp records showed that he was a Paragraph 175 prisoner. He became one of the first gay survivors of N**i persecution to publicly tell his story. He died in 2003, after many years of sharing his experiences and drawing attention to the plight of Paragraph 175 prisoners.

Learn more about the persecution of gay men under the N**i regime: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/persecution-of-homosexuals-in-the-third-reich

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08/10/2019

‪Wishing our Jewish followers an easy and meaningful fast as we make our way into Yom Kippur tonight. ‬

07/10/2019

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"When one person is murdered, it’s a tragedy. When millions are murdered, it is a statistic.” This phrase, often attributed to Stalin (who is similarly guilty of genocide), encompasses how difficult it can be for people to connect with individual stories of Holocaust victims and survivors, espec...

06/10/2019

Trailer Now Available at YouTube.com/c/IndividualVoicesfromtheHolocaust. Or you may go to IndividualPodcast.com and click “Listen to the Podcast.” The show will be available on iTunes, Spotify and Stitcher this week.

06/10/2019

Individual: Voices from the Holocaust trailer is live on YouTube: https://youtube.com/watch?v=HcS6SpOByeU

And you can listen to the trailer here: https://individualpodcast.com/individual-podcast/oeebtm0dennn379zahrl1obxg36s14

Links on Spotify, iTunes and Stitcher forthcoming.

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30/09/2019

The website is live!
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Welcome to Individual: Voices from the Holocaust Podcast’s page. Click on links to the left for further information about the podcast. Use the main page to click on current episodes and find out more about the individual highlighted in each episode.

30/09/2019

30/09/2019

Wishing all of our future listeners a sweet new year. L’Shana Tova!